Regular expression to look for malformed placeholders

[wildina7]

Hi everyone,

I have a file where the source contains 2 types of important placeholders:

1. {Platform}|platform(XXXX, XXXX, XXXX)

Example: {Platform}|platform(controller, controller, mouse/keyboard)

2. {Gender}|gender(“XXXX”, “XXXX”)

Example: {Gender}|gender(“boy”, “girl”)

I need a check to make sure that these placeholders maintain the same structure in the target, where only XXX would differ.

Can you help me?

[omartin]

Try the following searches:

1. Platform placeholder:
   Source: "(\{Platform\}\|platform)=1\([^,]+, [^,]+, .+\)"
   Target: -"@1\([^,]+, [^,]+, .+\)"
   Search mode: Regular Expressions
   PowerSearch: On
2. Gender placeholder:
   Source: "(\{Gender\}\|gender)=1\(""[^""]+"", ""[^""]+""\)"
   Target: -"@1\(""[^""]+"", ""[^""]+"" \)"
   Search mode: Regular Expressions
   PowerSearch: On

[wildina7]

@omartin

“({Gender}|gender)=1(”“[^”“]+”“, “”[^”“]+”“)”

Hi omartin,

the platform one worked, thanks a lot!

For the gender one, I get the error:

[omartin]

@omartin

Gender placeholder:
Source: "(\{Gender\}\|gender)=1\(""[^""]+"", ""[^""]+""\)"
Target: -"@1\(""[^""]+"", ""[^""]+"" \)"
Search mode: Regular Expressions
PowerSearch: On

Try the above fixed search.